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Very pleased to announce the latest album by the Olie Brice Quintet! ‘Day after Day’ will be released on the Babel label on Friday 16th June, and launched this on the 14th June with a gig at the Vortex, London.

Featuring Alex Bonney (cornet), Mike Fletcher (alto), George Crowley (tenor) and Jeff Williams (drums), this is a follow-up to ‘Immune to Clockwork’. Playing original by me, including dedications to Nathaniel Mackey and Wadada Leo Smith, and one very old standard.

The fantastic alto player Dee Byrne has launched a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Entropi’s debut album. Entropi is Dee’s quintet, a band i love playing in. Here’s the video – if you think you might buy the album when it comes out anyway, please consider pre-buying it now!

The new album by the Nick Malcolm Quartet will be out very soon, on Nick’s label Green Eyes Records. The album is called ‘Beyond Our Voices’, and features the same line-up as our earlier album – Alexander Hawkins on piano, Mark Whitlam on drums and me – plus a very special guest Corey Mwamba. I love being in this band, Nick writes fantastic and original music and I’m really proud of the new recording.

Here’s a recent interview Nick did about the release, along with a bit of footage of a gig we did at the Vortex earlier this year.

We’ll be touring to promote the new album, with Ric Yarborough replacing Mark Whitlam on drums for this tour. The first four dates will be with Corey Mwamba on vibes, the next five Alexander Hawkins on piano, and finally Alex Roth will be on guitar for the final gig of the tour.

Nick, Mark Sanders and I did a really nice recording session last week, beautifully captured as always by Alex Bonney. Hopefully it’ll be an album at some point, details here as and when…

Nick and I also played Mopomoso at the weekend, John Russell’s monthly night at the Vortex. Mark wasn’t available, but we played with the great Roger Turner instead, something I’ve wanted to do for ages. here’s the evidence…

Looking forward to a tour starting this tuesday, with Mikolaj Trzaska on alto sax and clarinets, and Mark Sanders on drums.

Mikolaj is a fantastic player, works with the likes of Peter Brotzmann and Ken Vandermark. Anyone reading this is bound to know Mark’s playing! We did some playing as a quartet with Steve Swell (on trombone) about a year ago – which was great, so I’m sure we’ll have a lot of fun this time round. Here’s the details:

24/05/11- Krakow, Alchemia

25/05/11 – Lodz, Jazzga

26/05/11 – Dublin, Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Pembroke Street

27/05/11 – Birmingham, The Station, Kings Heath

28/05/11 – London, Cafe Posk

29/05/11 – Newcastle, The Bridge Hotel

Edit after the tour – We had a great time! There’s a nice review here: